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“Various publishers … said they would love to publish [my manuscript]. But they also felt that there was simply no market… Then I sent [it] to the Edwin Mellen Press and… it has received over thirty reviews in major academic journals. … I strongly endorse the Edwin Mellen Press.”

- Irving Hexham, University of Calgary

Essays in Philosophical Zoology by Adolf PortmannThe Living Form and the Seeing EyePortmann, Adolf
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Richard B. Carter

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Of interest not only to philosophers but also to marine biologists, students of natural history, those involved in the life sciences, zoologists, zoo managers, wildlife preservationists, and ethicists. With interpretive essay.

Reviews

"Why should we elect the late renowned Swiss zoologist Adolf Portmann one of our most cherished teachers? Because of his vision of the mystery of the manifest and his effort to give biology an orientation that is ethical and aesthetic and that goes beyond the perilous narrowness of mechanistic Darwinism. . . . Read Portmann on Goethe and the poetry of plants, bird navigation, sex, fish display, and human infancy, to mention just a few topics, for a sense of relief and rejuvenation in biological and zoological vision that may be tantamount to a seeing for the first time of what was always there. Carter has done an essential service in making Portmann, worthy antagonist to Descartes and Darwin, available to us in English." - Roger A. Lewin in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease